BGSU Experts Available to Talk About the Changing Face of Fatherhood

Newswise — Bowling Green State University’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) has recently taken a closer look at the changing face of fatherhood.

Drs. Wendy Manning and Susan Brown, co-directors of the NCFMR, are available to talk about their recent findings, which include:

• On average, men are 27.4 years old when they become fathers. This is almost two years older than the age of first-time fathers 20 years ago.

• In the 1990s, only 6 percent of men who entered a first marriage already had two or more children. That number has increased to 11 percent for men who got married for the first time in the 2000s.

• African-American and Hispanic men report having more children, on average, than white men—44 percent of Hispanic men and 40 percent of African-American men have three or more children compared to only 20 percent of white men.